Ancestors

Written by Bud Talbot on 2025-01-14 at 20:42

Next time you talk on a cell phone, hear a weather report, search the web, or get an MRI, remember the U.S. National Science Foundation helped make that all possible, and more.

And this year is the NSF's 75th anniversary!

[#]NSF

https://new.nsf.gov/impacts

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Written by Sara on 2025-01-14 at 22:20

@bud_t they are also funding me

which, uh, I think is worthwhile 😉

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Written by Bud Talbot on 2025-01-14 at 23:02

@sarae 😁 that makes me happy, too

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Written by Sara on 2025-01-14 at 23:14

@bud_t whenever people are like, who does all this spending help

I'm like, remember that cool thing I was doing last week that you wanted to see more of

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Written by Bud Talbot on 2025-01-15 at 00:52

@sarae (I'm currently working as a program director at NSF) 😁

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Written by Sara on 2025-01-15 at 01:15

@bud_t I would like to assure you that I am behaving in the most financially responsible way possible with public funds 😆

(also we are doing some extremely badass culturally and socially relevant archaeology and ecology work down here with your tax dollars, boy howdy)

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Written by Bud Talbot on 2025-01-15 at 01:52

@sarae good to hear!

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Written by M.S. Bellows, Jr. on 2025-01-15 at 02:02

@bud_t @sarae Yeah, get a room, you two!

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Written by Sara on 2025-01-15 at 04:08

@msbellows @bud_t lol you should hear how I talk to NOAA

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Toot

Written by Gray Rockin' Evelyn on 2025-01-15 at 05:01

@sarae @msbellows @bud_t My sister used to work for NOAA, at a service colloquially known as "nymphs" (National Marine Fisheries Service = NMFS). It was all very sexy.

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Descendants

Written by M.S. Bellows, Jr. on 2025-01-15 at 05:04

@Gorfram @sarae @bud_t Dive tables, hurricanes, and fisheries? Sexy a.f.

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Written by Sara on 2025-01-15 at 05:08

@Gorfram @msbellows @bud_t NMFS is ABSOLUTELY sexy and I'm not just saying that because they helped me get the big grant that's going to support the incredible stuff

but, uh, I am trying very hard to make NMFS proud

and I think they will be

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